MEDIA AFFILIATION
Little White Lies
EyeforFilm
Film4
movieScope
Film International
musicOMH
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LOCATION
Oxford, United Kingdom
ABOUT ANTON
Anton Bitel was born in Australia in 1970, and has lived in the UK since 1989. Now a father of twins, occasional academic and full-time caffeine junkie, he compensates for a general sense of disgruntlement by moping about in darkened cinemas watching other people's joys and sorrows. He seeks elusive vicarious thrills from all genres and non-genres, but tends to prefer anything extreme, odd, miserable or tawdry. He is at home with horror, 'arthouse', the avant garde and Asian cinema. He joined the London Film Critics' Circle in 2009.
FAVORITES
Films: Eraserhead, Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41, Apocalypse Now, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring, M. Houlot's Holiday, Last Year In Marienbad, Holy Mountain (1973), Spider Forest, Synecdoche, New York, Ichi the Killer, The Saddest Music in the World, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Les Enfants du Paradis, Kaos, Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, Charisma
Directors: Kurosawa Kiyoshi, David Lynch, Paolo Sorrentino, Park Chan-wook, Fabrice du Welz, Dominik Moll, David Fincher, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Guy Maddin
